Panda, Niranjan and Khush, Gurdev S.

Host plant resistance to insects/ Niranjan Panda and Gurdev S. Khush. - Wallingford, Oxon, UK : CAB International in association with the International Rice Research Institute, ©1995. - xiii, 431 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Crop plant and insect diversity; secondary plant metabolites for insect resistance; insect-plant interactions; host plant selection; mechanisms of resistance; factors affecting expression of resistance; screening for insect resistance; plant resistance and insect pest management; genetics of resistance to insects; breeding for resistance to insects.

0851989632


Plants Botany Science--Study and teaching

580.724 / PAH 1995